A fire on Shores Street left two people without a home on Thursday afternoon.

David Charity, who lives at the Shores Street house along with a woman, said that he does not know what he is going to do next. Charity said he went out to a local hardware store and came home to find smoke billowing out of the building.

"I want to know how it started," Charity said, while standing in his driveway, watching firefighters tear apart the roof to battle the blaze. "I don't know how it could have happened."

The fire was reported around 3 p.m. No one in the building was hurt.

Rick Ferreira, director of the Taunton Emergency Management Agency, was at the scene providing bottled water to Taunton firefighters and assisting the residents. Ferreira said the Red Cross was called to assist the two residents who were displaced.

"Two people live in the house and we are working with them right now to assess the situation," Ferreira said. "They can't sleep in there."

As of press time, the Taunton Fire Department said the cause of the fire was still under investigation.